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Politicians Killed in World War One
(1914-1918)

Very incomplete list!

in chronological order

	Robert McNeely (c.1883-1915) — of Monroe, Union County, N.C. Born about 1883. Member of North Carolina state house of representatives, 1908-10; U.S. Consul in Aden, 1915, died in office 1915. While en route to Aden as a passenger on the British liner Persia, he was one of 385 passengers and crew who perished when the ship sank (probably hit by a German torpedo), in the Mediterranean Sea, December 20, 1915 (age about 32 years). Burial location unknown.
	Alfred L. M. Gottschalk (1873-1918) — Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 8, 1873. Son of L. G. Gottschalk and Louise de L. (Boucher) Gottschalk. Newspaper correspondent; sugar grower; U.S. Consul in Callao, 1903-05; U.S. Consul General in Callao, 1905-06; Mexico City, 1906-08; , 1908-11; Rio de Janeiro, 1916-17. Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon. While en route from Bahia, Brazil to Baltimore on the U.S. Navy ship Cyclops, during World War I, he was one of 306 sailors and crew who perished when the ship sank, in the North Atlantic Ocean, March, 1918 (age 45 years, 0 days); the wreckage was never found.
	Augustus Peabody Gardner (1865-1918) — also known as Augustus P. Gardner; Gussie Gardner — of Hamilton, Essex County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 5, 1865. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1900-01; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1902-17; resigned 1917; major in the U.S. Army during World War I. Died, of pneumonia, while in the military service at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Bibb County, Ga., January 14, 1918 (age 52 years, 70 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Second great-grandson of Timothy Pickering; married to Constance Lodge (1872-1941; daughter of Henry Cabot Lodge; aunt of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and John Davis Lodge); grandfather of William Amory Gardner Minot. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams family of New York.   Cross-reference: Willfred W. Lufkin   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
	Bertram Tracy Clayton (1862-1918) — also known as Bertram T. Clayton — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; Manila, Philippines. Born near Clayton, Barbour County, Ala., October 19, 1862. Democrat. Civil engineer; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Representative from New York 4th District, 1899-1901; defeated, 1900; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I. Killed in action in France, May 30, 1918 (age 55 years, 223 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Brother of Henry De Lamar Clayton; married, June 12, 1887, to Louise M. Brasher.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
	John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) — of New York. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 19, 1879. Son of James Mitchel and Mary (Purroy) Mitchel. Republican. Lawyer; law partner of George V. Mullan, 1902-13; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1913; mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1914-17; defeated in primary, 1917; on April 17, 1914, at Park Row, New York, he was shot at by an M. P. Mahoney, an unemployed carpenter; the bullet missed the mayor, but struck and wounded Frank L. Polk, the city's Corporation Counsel. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Killed in a plane crash during World War I military training, at Gerstner Field, near Holmwood, Calcasieu Parish, La., July 6, 1918 (age 38 years, 352 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.   Relatives: Nephew of Henry D. Purroy; son of James Mitchel and Mary (Purroy) Mitchel; married, April 5, 1909, to Olive Child.   See also Wikipedia article   Image source: Library of Congress
	Roy E. Parrish (d. 1918) — of Clarksburg, Harrison County, W.Va. Republican. Member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Harrison County, 1913-14; member of West Virginia state senate 12th District, 1915-18; died in office 1918; chair of Harrison County Republican Party, 1917; served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Killed in action at Aconin, France, July 22, 1918. Burial location unknown.

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